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KristinC1983
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What can cause a urinary track infection? Sunny had one, I'm still giving him his meds and Critical Care both twice a day now, but when I asked the vet what could have caused it, she asked if I use shavings. I said kiln-dried aspen and she said the oils aren't' good for them so I should switch to recycled paper bedding, which I'd rather switch to fleece-paper bedding scares me cause the risk of impaction. Sunny eats his shavings, and I guarentee he'd eat recycled paper bedding as well-he doeesn't eat fleece. So could aspen shavings have caused a UTI-they are kiln-dried? Also, my father built Sunny's cage. I told him what materials were okay and he got them. I told him only kiln-dried pine wood, he laughed, but said he'd get it. Now I'm afraid maybe he didn't get kiln-dried pine and he just got regular pine and lied to me for whatever reason. He thinks I'm ridiculous with Sunny, over-protective of just a rodent (his words), so in reality, it wouldn't really surprise me if he did lie and got regular pine, and Sunny chews on his cage a LOT, plus his hidey house, which I made from some oof the left over wood.
What should I do? I told him it can actually harm a chinchilla-pine wood that is not kiln-dried, but he's cheap, even with my money, and maybe it's cheaper or something, so he didn't care enough. But if it can make Sunny sick, I will make my father tell me, and I believe it can make him sick. I didn't think to question him until now-I just trusted him. I'll buy him a metal cage and put in kiln-dried pine shelves if I have to. I don't want him to get sick. What do you think/know?! Could kiln-dried aspen, or not kiln-dried pine have caused a URI, and what else could it cause?
What should I do? I told him it can actually harm a chinchilla-pine wood that is not kiln-dried, but he's cheap, even with my money, and maybe it's cheaper or something, so he didn't care enough. But if it can make Sunny sick, I will make my father tell me, and I believe it can make him sick. I didn't think to question him until now-I just trusted him. I'll buy him a metal cage and put in kiln-dried pine shelves if I have to. I don't want him to get sick. What do you think/know?! Could kiln-dried aspen, or not kiln-dried pine have caused a URI, and what else could it cause?